On March 29, The Irish Times will celebrate its 177th anniversary. That amounts to around 55,000 editions of the newspaper. Tens of millions of words but there’s one that has only appeared on a single occasion. It was the edition of September 22, 2012. A Saturday. The day before Donegal took on Mayo in the All-Ireland football final. Keith Duggan, then an Irish Times sportswriter, had sat down for an interview with Donegal defender Eamon McGee four days earlier in the Seaview Hotel in Gweedore. That interview stands out for two reasons. It was the last occasion that a player…

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